# COSATU in Gauteng is diep bekommerd en verontwaardig oor die Openbare Beskermer se bevindings dat die Departemente van Gesondheid en Infrastruktuurontwikkeling herstelwerk aan die Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Akademiese Hospitaal onnodig vertraag het ná ‘n verwoestende brand in April 2021. COSATU se voorsitter, Amos Monyela, sê openbare instellings wat toevertrou word met die beskerming van […]
# Die Stad Kaapstad vra die Ministerie van Polisie om die voortdurende mislukking van die strafregstelsel aan te spreek, veral rakende skuldigbevindings vir onwettige en verbode vuurwapens wat deur stadswetstoepassers gekonfiskeer word. Die stad het tussen Januarie 2023 en Maart 2026 een-duisend-763 sake wat verband hou met onwettige vuurwapens en ammunisie aangeteken. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has opened a criminal case against the City’s mayoral committee member for Community Development Planning, Thapelo Amad, for discharging a firearm in public. The party’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku says they recently received information from a reliable source that Amad negligently fired shots into the air in Lufhereng, Soweto. She says at […]
# The Gauteng Department of Education acknowledged the delays in the release of school subsidies which were expected to be deposited into the respective school accounts by 15 May. Spokesperson Onwabile Lubhelwana says the department will ensure that the disbursement of the funds will start next month. He says the funds cover essential operational expenses […]
# The DA in the Western Cape maintains that safety requires SAPS to implement targeted structural interventions by expanding investigative powers to provinces and municipalities. The latest police crime statistics for the fourth quarter show that murders in the province decreased by 8-percent, from one-thousand-68 cases between January and March last year to 983 cases in […]
# The DA in Gauteng says it will urgently engage acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia to devolve certain policing powers to the provincial level, enabling a more efficient and responsive crime-prevention strategy. The party’s Crezane Bosch says the latest fourth quarter crime statistics released by police revealed that Gauteng accounted for 54.8-percent of all kidnapping cases […]
# The South African Artificial Intelligence Association and the Western Cape government have launched a new provincial artificial intelligence cluster to grow the AI sector in the province. The initiative will focus on AI policy, governance and infrastructure and aims to strengthen innovation, attract investment, and create jobs over the next three-years. The association’s Nick […]
# The City of Cape Town has called on the Police Ministry to address its ongoing failure of the criminal justice system, especially when it comes to securing convictions for illegal and prohibited firearms confiscated by City Enforcement. The city tracked one-thousand-763 cases linked to illegal firearms and ammunition between January 2023 and March 2026. Mayoral committee […]
# COSATU in Gauteng has expressed deep concern and outrage following the findings by the Public Protector that the Departments of Health and Infrastructure Development unduly delayed repairs to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital after the devastating fire of April 2021. COSATU chairperson, Amos Monyela, says public institutions entrusted with safeguarding healthcare infrastructure must be held […]
